on there politically interesting or how had you studied the country for a long time? Okay, well, this is really embarrassing, but this is my age, right? So I grew up in the 1970s. Mao Zedong was a hero. We didn't really know that much about China. I went to a parochial school. I had a copy of the Little Red Book in my blazer pocket. I thought, this is finally the version of communism where they understand the peasants, right? I know it's really embarrassing, but I thought that this was a model that would work and I wanted to see it. So when I was working, I was actually working a night shift at business week on the desk in New York and I just, I had a break. So I went out, I went to China Books and Periodicals, which existed then. I bought all the magazines and I wrote to them and said, I want to go work for you. And then I forgot about it. But one of them sent me a telegram like six months later. So I thought, why not? Yeah, telegrams existed then. That's exciting. Very exciting. (6/57)
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